West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee visited the house of a slain party worker Nirmal Kundu on Thursday, 6 June and lambasted the BJP, claiming that it was lighting "naked pyres of terror" in the state.
Kundu was TMC the president of Ward 6 of North Dumdum Municipality area in Nimta.
Banerjee accused the BJP of killing Kundu, a charge denied by the saffron party.
“The BJP is lighting naked pyres of terror at places where we have won (in the Lok Sabha election). They are also trying to demean the Bengali culture,” she said.
The saffron party was yet to win the Assembly election in the state and it got only 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats, that too, by resorting to malpractices, the TMC chief said.
"Why the party (BJP) is carrying out atrocities like killing people? What kind of politics is this?" she asked, while talking to reporters outside Kundu's residence. Bengal is not a place for violence and terror, the chief minister said, adding, "It is a place for peace and tranquility."
Kundu was shot dead by motorcycle-borne assailants on Tuesday evening at Nimta, on the northern outskirts of the city. Two persons have been arrested in this connection.
Banerjee said the case was handed over to the CID.
Two Suspects Arrested
Two suspects have been arrested by the Nimta police in connection with the murder.
According to the police, four or five bike-borne men attacked Kundu, shooting him twice. Kundu was immediately rushed to a hospital with bullet injuries on his head but was declared dead on arrival.
A police officer told The Hindu that one of the arrested, Suman Kundu, was a BJP supporter.
“Whenever there is any political murder, the Trinamool Congress blames the BJP. The TMC has tried to link my even my name in the murder of a person in Kharagpur,” retaliated the state’s BJP president Dilip Ghosh.
The police have recovered CCTV footage of the incident from the area and have begun investigation.
(With inputs from ANI, PTI and The Hindu)
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